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Widom delighted after years of despair

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Every tennis club has a ladder. There are no gray areas; you are who you beat. Until you can handle the guy ahead of you, there will be no upward mobility. And going down is always a possibility. The ATP World Tour, the biggest, richest tennis club in the universe, is no different. This past week, a red-headed, blue-eyed journeyman from Coral Springs, Fla., made the largest leap of any player on the ultimate tennis ladder. After a series of outrageous misfortunes, Todd Widom ...

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